You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECKWhat good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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